In fact, the Department of Defense has an entire research program dedicated to the study of blast injury.

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While many reports focused on amputation injuries, severe internal damage can occur with little or no external indication due to blast injury.

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Among these free resources are a series of general information sheets on specific types of blast injury developed together with the American Trauma Society.

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The governor, his driver and his bodyguards survived the blast without injury, but the explosion is said to have killed bystanders or those in cars following the convoy.

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Three officers escaped injury in the blast in the Hazelbank area near the M5 on Saturday evening.

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But after a blocked Ledley shot had threatened a second Wales equaliser, Pavlyuchenko seized on a mistake by Collins deep in injury time to blast in a third goal and seal the result.

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Gligorov, 78, suffered a head injury in the powerful blast, which sent glass flying and damaged buildings near the national parliament.

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Last week, he allowed the decisive home run in a loss to the Cardinals, missed the Nationals series with an elbow injury and served up the blast that completed the Yankees' three-game sweep Sunday.

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Pakistan's opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a head injury she received from a suicide bomb blast and not by gunfire that preceded the explosion, investigators from Britain's Scotland Yard said Friday.

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